Tack-driving mechanism.



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TACK DRIVING MECHANISM.

(Application Bled Oct. SQ, 1900.)

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(Application led Oct. 30, 1900.)

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UNITED Srnfrns4 PATENT OFFICE.

PERLEYv R. GLASS, OF QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO PEERLESS MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CHARLESTON, VEST VIRGINIA, AND NEW YORK, N. Y.

TACK-DRIVING MECHANISVI.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,384, dated March 11, 1902 Application filed October 30, 1900, Serial No. 34,877. (No model.) y

To @ZZ whom, it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, PERLEY R. GLASS, a citi l.zen of the UnitedStates, residing at Quincy, lcounty of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Tack-Driving Mechanism, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa specification, like charac-v ters on the drawings representing like parts.

. This invention relates to tack-drivin g mechianisln, and hasforits object to simplify the construction and operation of the same. y

My improved mechanism, has a hopper which contains a Vsurplus of tacks, and before using the tool it is hung up in such position that a pinion may engage a gear fixed with relationto the hopper to rotate the latter and lcause it to iill the tack-raceway'of the tool with a quantity of tacks sufficient or more than sufficient to effect the lasting of cer-v tainly one, if not more, shoes. l Figure l ,in side elevation,represents a tackdriving mechanism hung up in order that the hopper may be actuated to edect the filling with tacks of the tackreceiving raceway. Fig. 2 is asection of Fig. l with the hopperrotating means omitted, the tacks being also 'omitted from vthe raceway. l Fig. 3 shows the pick-off detached. Fig. 4 isa section to the right of the dotted line ,`Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section in the dotted linea', Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a detail showing the driver, part of the driver-bar, the pick-off, and the nosepiece of the driver. Figs. 7 and 8 are like details with the pick-off in a different position, the driverbar and driver being omitted.

The hand part A, of suitable shape to be grasped in the hand of the operatoighas pro-` visions to cooperate with the bracket B to enable the hand part to be hung up, the means herein shown being a projection a on the handpiece, which enters a notch b in the bracket, the latter being secured, preferably, to the wall of Va building and sustaining a shaft B, having an attached bevel-gear B2, which is engaged by abevel-'gear B3, fast on shaft B4, `which in practice may be driven constantly in any usual way from any usual counter-shaft in the building. The shaft B has a connected pinion B5, which engages a toothed wheel A', carried by a hopper A2, ro-

tatable about a studAS, extended from the handpieee, and preferably the location of the pivot a and the weight of the structure are such 4that normally the wheelA' when the handpiece is hung up on the bracket will engage itself automatically and be maintained `in driving contact with the pinion B5. The hopper is provided at its interior with'any desired number'of suitable shelves b', which as the hopper is rotated lift the tacks andr carry them upwardly and drop the same upon the apron b2 at the upper end of the raceway A4, the said raceway being represented as a platehaving a longitudinal slot, as b3, (seev Fig. 4,) and being connected with the handpiece by suitable screws, as b4, the raceway having a cover b5, represented as connected to the handpiece by suitable screws'h, and, as herein represented, the lower end of saidcover-plate is extended beyond the path of movement of the driver to be described and has a hollow boss hi, which acts asl a guide for the driver in its movement, the apron at the upper end of the raceway standing normally inthe hopper at one side of thestud l The hopper vis shown as provided eX- A3. ternally with a series of projections 2, which in the rotation of the hopper as the latter is acting to fill the raceway with tacks meet one end of a lever a2,'pivoted at a3, and turn said lever, causing the lower end thereof, engaging a stud-screw a4, to reciprocate a clearer a5, represented as a bar suitably guided yand having connected to it by a set-screw as (partially, shown in Fig. 4;) a device al, located just above'the "upper edge of the raceway in-p sideV the hopper. A spring a? moves the Yclearer in opposition to the lever a2. This l clearer in its reciprocations knocks off and dislodges any tacks which may fall imperfcctly on the top of the raceway or which may override one the other, thus making provision to insure that only the heads'of the tacks the bodies of which have properly entered the grooves of the raceway may descend under the cover b5 of the raceway. That the tacks may be taken oh? singly from the lower end of the raceway I have provided a pick-off, represented'detached in Fig. 3 and in dierent positions of its operation in Figs. 6 to 8. l

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The inner end of the raceway A4 is represented as sustained by a shoulder 3X in the nosepiece C, containing the driver-passage, into which the tacks are let off one at a time that they may be struck by the driver c each time the driver-bar c is depressed by a blow of the hand or otherwise, the descent of the driver-bar compressing a spring c2, which quickly acts to lift the driver-bar and driver into their normal starting position. The handpieee has at one side, near its lower end, a detachable plate c3, held in place by suitable screws c4, and said plate is provided with a suitable spring c5, held in place by a suitable screw c6, the lower end of said spring being left free and acting normally upon a roller or other stud c7, surrounding loosely a stud 08, extended from the pick-0E D. This pick-off is shown in section in Fig. 2 and in elevation in Figs. l, 3, 6, 7, and 8. The pick-off consists of a block having at its side next the end of the raceway a notched finger d and a pointed member or finger el. The ends of the pick-off are sustained in suitable guideways formed in the handpiece and in the cover c3. The lower end of the driverbar is beveled, as at e9, to meet the rollerstud c7 in the descent of the driver and move the pick-off in the direction of the arrow thereon in Figs. 3, 6, 7, and 8, such movement of the pick-0E bringing the notch 4 in the finger d opposite the raceway-groove b3, s0 that the endmost tack of the series may enter the notch 4, while the driver acts on the head of a tack, (represented by 5 in Fig. 2,) which is detained in a yielding manner in the driver-passage of the nose C by means of a detainer 6, represented as a lever having its lower end inturned and pivoted at 7 on a pin, preferably mounted in part of the nose, a spring 8X acting on the detainer, normally keeping the lip at its lower end standing in the driver-passage. After the driver has acted to drive from the detainer the tack 5 the driver-bar is lifted by the spring c2, permitting the spring c5 to act and move the pick-oif in a direction opposite the arrow 3, thus permitting the beveled pointed end 8 of the finger d to pass behind the body of the tack which has entered the notch 4, and acting on said body the beveled end of the finger moves the tack laterally and causes it to drop from the raceway into the driver-passage. The inner side of the finger cl by crossing the shank of the tack then occupying the end of the raceway holds that tack and all back of it in the raceway until the driver-bar is again depressed to drive the tack then held on the detainer. The lower extremity of the raceway is extendedinto and enters the space D' within the pick-off.

In practice while I prefer to shape the acting opposed ends of the fingers d and d as represented in the drawings, yet their shape may be changed to correspond in shape with any usual piek-off slides commonly used to deliver tacks singly from a raceway.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,- isl. A tack-driving mechanism comprising a driver, a hopper, a raceway connecting the hopper and driver, said hopper having a connected toothed wheel, and a bracket having gearing, `combined with means to detachably sustain said tack-driving mechanism in said bracket to effect the engagement of the toothed wheel of the hopper with gearing snstained in the bracket, and means t0 actuate said gearing so that the hopper may be rofated to fill the raceway with tacks while the tack-driving mechanism is inoperative.

2. In a tack-driving mechanism, a driver, a rotatable hopper, a raceway connecting said hopper and driver, said hopper having on its inner periphery a series of lifting projections,

hopper-rotating mechanism, and means to detachably sustain said tack-driving mechanism with its hopper in operative relation to the hopper-rotating mechanism, whereby, as the hopper is rotated, tacks are lifted by the lifting projections and delivered to the raceway.

3. In a tack-driving mechanism, a driver, a rotatable hopper, a raceway extending into the hopper and connecting the same with the driver, said hopper having on its inner peripherya series of lifting projections, hopperrotating mechanism, means to detachably sustain said hopper in operative relation to the hopper-rotatin g mechanism, the construction being such that as the hopper rotates the lifting projections deliver tacks to the projecting end of the raceway.

4t. In a tack-driving mechanism, a driver,- a hopper rotatable about a horizontal axis, a raceway extended into one side of said hopper and connecting the same with the driver, said hopper having on its inner periphery a series of shelves, and hopper-rotating mechanism, and means for detachably sustaining said tack-driving device with the hopper in operative relation with the hopper-rotating mechanism, the construction being such that as the hopper rotates tacks are lifted and deposited on the end of the raceway.

5. In a tack-driving mechanism, a driver, a hopper rotatable about a horizontal axis, a raceway extending into said hopper and terminating in a attened portion or apron, said raceway connecting the hopper and driver, and said hopper having on its inner periphery a series of shelves combined with hopperrotating mechanism, and means to detachably sustain the tack-driving mechanism with the hopper in operative relation with the hopper-rotating mechanism,the construction being such that as the hopper is rotated tacks are lifted and deposited upon the apron.

6. In a tack-driving mechanism, a driver, a hopper, a raceway extending into the hopper, hopper-rotating mechanism, means for detachably sustaining said driving mechanism with the hopper in operative relation with IOO IIO

. the hopper-rotating mechanism, and means Within the hopper to deliver tacks to said raeeway, a clearer, and means exterior to the hopper to reciprocate said clearer, said means 5 being operated by rotation of the hopper;

7. In a tack-driving mechanism,a frame, a driver supported therein, a raceway to feed tacks to said driver, said raceWay being independent froin said frame but rigidly secured Io thereto and a cover for the raceway, said .cover being detachably secured to the frame 

